21/05/2019

End of may update: the Huawei breaking news

After the Hossa release, May was a very quiet month: some little update on Pro1, a minor update for SDK, and then BOOM!

The breaking news: following the Trump’s will, Google will stop support for Huawei devices!

Twitter barely exploded, even looking at the #Sailfish hashtag. Many Jolla users tweeted about Sailfish OS as possible Huawei’s new OS, in a Jolla Huawei cooperation scenario.

Some tweet

The first ideas…

Maybe Huawei should move from #Android to #SailfishOS? ?@Huawei @JollaHQ https://t.co/sb8MgIEFGs

— Olli-Pekka Heinisuo (@skvark) May 19, 2019

#sailfishos can you step in and help Huawei please https://t.co/hT6HfGHoy0

— david price (@madcheeze) May 20, 2019

Then the hype grow…

Hope it's the beginning of the end of Google's dominance. Any phone manufacturer should be aware by now that being blacklisted is a real threat and relying solely on Google's products could turn out to be a mistake in the long run. More #SailfishOS @HuaweiMobile phones please

— Kool-Aid Man (@KoolAid_Oh_Yeah) May 20, 2019

Una oportunidad para que @Huawei apoye el desarrollo de otros S.O. móviles como #SailfishOS de @JollaHQ, o #Tizen de @SamsungMobile, incluso #UbuntuTouch .
A ves si de una vez comenzamos a recuperar nuestra privacidad.

— JuanFer (@onoffre) May 20, 2019

Highlighting the tweet from Stefano Mosconi, (Jolla cofounder)

#Jolla slides from 2013: “Android is not open-source, it’s source open”

If only there was an alternative #OS around… #SailfishOS

— Stefano Mosconi (@zzste) May 20, 2019

Our speculation & conversation with Zoltan (the creator of Gooble Invasion, ndr)

[SPECULATION]
Maybe we will see some Sailfish OS powered Huawei in future? #Huawei #SailfishOS

— Jolla-devices (@jolladevices) May 20, 2019

(We had a marriage, so your tweet is unexpectedly late 😐   )

In the end, finally some criticism against Trump, because a political ban is never a good news.

If an orange man in a white house in a different country can decide what OS runs on my phone, I will have to take the country of origin and governance of my next phone OS in consideration. #SailfishOS #LineageOS #Linux #FOSS #Huawei https://t.co/NbyuxHu3jO

— Marcel (@marcel73nl) May 20, 2019

The Google-Huawei topic will continue in next weeks, and we will see if it will be a shutdown, or just a stop for new collaboration. For sure there are some legal issue that will make slower apply the ban, and there will be some form of agreement between the parties… stay tuned, the topic will be covered again, also on Medium.

 

The other news:

Jolla is looking users for a UX test: apply if you’re in Helsinki and never used the Sailfish UI.

Haluaako joku päästä testailemaan uusia Sailfsh ominaisuuksia? #Jolla #JollaSuomi https://t.co/PHADUKhpii

— JollaSuomi (@JollaSuomi) May 15, 2019

 

Minor update for SDK, now it’s possible develop for Hossa release:

#Jolla published new installers and repositories of the Sailfish SDK. This SDK release is called 2.1 and among other changes it enables development for #SailfishOS release 3.0.3.

– Release notes: https://t.co/25zbhWtvY7

— Sailfish OS News (@SailfishOSNews) May 14, 2019

 

Xperia XA2 Plus end of may price: 269€ 

We’re focusing on less models, for sure on the XA2 Plus 32GB dual sim, which is the “Top” selling everywhere.
Thanks to some local price dropping, we can chip away another 10€.

New base price for the Xperia XA2 Plus: 269€
Chip away another 10€!#sonyxperia #xperiaxa2plus #jolladevicestore #jollahttps://t.co/1I5qTYvEEC

— Jolla-devices (@jolladevices) May 20, 2019

See you soon.

Good reading
Giovanni - Jolla-Device.com

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